NAVAL DIVISION

Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1933, Page 8

NAVAL DIVISION

■- CRUISES .AND. EXERCISES. . r' ‘ " ‘ 1 i’’ •• AUCKLAND, June 14. Further provisional arrangements hay been made for the combined naval exercises to be’ c, fried put in New Zealand waters !by two cruisers tVorn the, 'New Zealand Division, of the Royal Navy and - ships ii'pm.' the Royal Australian -Navy. .It ig hoped that the berm and AlusWtljia,. probably., accompanied by, the. oest-royer .•..-Td.'ttf’P-. will arrive oft North .Cape toward the end of August. They are; expei'ted to iremain -in Now Zealand waters until. the end of September. 11.M.5. Dunedin,., the flagship of Commodore Burges Watson j wilj leavb, Auckland. to-morrOw morning on . her annual island cruise and will return on August 15. By thig time the Diomede, which is undergoing a refit at Devonport Naval Base,,.,will probably be re--commissioned, and ... jthe two cruisers I will meet the Australian -ships off-North | Cape. A mock battle is to be held, the Australians taking; the part -of an atta,eking fleet, while the Dunedin and the. Diomede, y possibly with Air Force . co.oper'tion, will have the task of defending the coast. All the •ihms wiil ;,'then probab’y put 'into ■ Russell and a regatta and other competitions between the .ships will . be held in the Bay of Elands. The warships pro Alien expected to proceed to Auckland a.nd on the way will probably o’yt'y cut gunnery 'practices, in Hauraki Gulf. During the first week in September further gunnery practices ore to,, ibo held in Hauraki Gulf, and the, .yAiting warships will 'leave at the end. (Of iSeptember on their return to Australia. The two sloops Veronica, and Laburnum will le-’-ve oil their inland cruises on Friday., Both are making extended cruises this year, and ‘consequently wRI be up-able,, toAake part ini. the; combined exercises. , ':;J